Evernote and C.R.A.P Principles!

I had heard of Evernote before, however didn’t know how to use it or didn’t even know all of the tools it had. Like Zotero it enables us to bookmark the page and save brief information about the web page that we want to save. However since Evernote allows us to keep the information in different kinds of ways; to save the whole article, the whole page, book marking a page, simplify an article, save the full page, or even screen shot parts of it, I think I will be using this more often than Zotero. I was surprised with the screen shot device it has along with the mosaic and notes we can add on to it.

C.R.A.P

Contrast

Color contrast and size contrast is important to care about. Putting a yellow colored text on top of a sunflower will make it difficult for the audience to watch and read the information. About the size, it is important to change the sizes of the text according to the importance. (Title and subtitle)

Repetition

To use a repeated font, style, color makes it easier for the audience to watch the slide shows and the whole presentation. This aids us to add depth and richness to our project and create a collaborative.

Alignment

This principle was new to me out of all of the C.R.A.P. It is about thinking where to place the text and the photo included in the slide to link the text and the picture. For example, if I had a text saying “...for the future” then it is better to have a photo of me facing the text rather than facing my back to it. I had never cared about this therefore it gave me a useful information.

Proximity

It is important to give spaces between the title that goes on the top and the credits or my name presented on the bottom.

These principles are all about making a presentation that helps the audience catch our point and make it easier for them to understand what we are presenting. If we think about it from the audience side of view I think it will make it easier for us to follow these principles.